A Flea in Her Ear

From drop-dead satire to deadpan farce, Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear holds its own with nonstop amorous entanglements, unconsummated infidelities, mistaken identities, and breathless chases. It matters little whether a genre is high or low: the horseplay, the byplay, the wordplay’s the thing — the ready wit is all.